Roommates, dorms and rotational play.
Basically, I'm wondering whether it'd be possible to have two playable sims in the same dorm but only have one of them be active at a time. ie two seperate households in the same 'house' (dorm). An ex...
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I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept of rotational play with uni students.
From the Guru Q&A:
There is some amount of progression that occurs for Sims already enrolled in university that are rotated away from. Unplayed Sims will finish their term and re-enroll, eventually graduating. Played Sims will finish their term but wait to re-enroll until the player rotates back to them. All Sims progressing in this way will earn an “average” grade while doing so.
Let’s say I have 8 students to send. If I play them all together, I’ll be stressed out. I’d prefer to divide them into 2 groups of 4 and I want both groups to live in separate dorms. You have to be enrolled to live in dorms. If I play group 1 for a week, I want to have group 2 moved in so that they’re all able to visit each other in the dorm setting. So for that first term, group 2 will complete the term with an average grade. Will they be kicked out of the dorm at the end, since they can’t live there without being enrolled again? And where would I find them, in the played households bin? Is there an opportunity to get their things out of the dorm?
Then if I swap households, I would have to re-enroll group 1 first, then re-enroll group 2 and start playing them while group 1 is progressing with an average grade.
It shortens the time I’d get to play with them by forcing them to progress without me. I don’t know if I love that or hate that concept. Maybe their grade doesn’t matter as long as they pass.
And how would this affect their memberships with organizations or secret societies if they get bumped out of being “enrolled”?
This would be a logistical nightmare for someone wanting to send 20+ students to university simultaneously, right?
From the Guru Q&A:
There is some amount of progression that occurs for Sims already enrolled in university that are rotated away from. Unplayed Sims will finish their term and re-enroll, eventually graduating. Played Sims will finish their term but wait to re-enroll until the player rotates back to them. All Sims progressing in this way will earn an “average” grade while doing so.
Let’s say I have 8 students to send. If I play them all together, I’ll be stressed out. I’d prefer to divide them into 2 groups of 4 and I want both groups to live in separate dorms. You have to be enrolled to live in dorms. If I play group 1 for a week, I want to have group 2 moved in so that they’re all able to visit each other in the dorm setting. So for that first term, group 2 will complete the term with an average grade. Will they be kicked out of the dorm at the end, since they can’t live there without being enrolled again? And where would I find them, in the played households bin? Is there an opportunity to get their things out of the dorm?
Then if I swap households, I would have to re-enroll group 1 first, then re-enroll group 2 and start playing them while group 1 is progressing with an average grade.
It shortens the time I’d get to play with them by forcing them to progress without me. I don’t know if I love that or hate that concept. Maybe their grade doesn’t matter as long as they pass.
And how would this affect their memberships with organizations or secret societies if they get bumped out of being “enrolled”?
This would be a logistical nightmare for someone wanting to send 20+ students to university simultaneously, right?
